Neusäß

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Neusäß
Map of Germany, position of the city of Neusäß highlighted

Coordinates: 48 ° 24 '  N , 10 ° 50'  E

Basic data
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Swabia
County : augsburg
Height : 485 m above sea level NHN
Area : 25.21 km 2
Residents: 22,335 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 886 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 86356
Area code : 0821
License plate : A , SMÜ, WHO
Community key : 09 7 72 184
City structure: 9 parts of the community

City administration address : 		Main street 28
86356 Neusäß
Website : www.neusaess.de
Mayor : Richard Greiner ( CSU )
Location of the city of Neusäß in the Augsburg district
Augsburg Landkreis Aichach-Friedberg Landkreis Dachau Landkreis Dillingen an der Donau Landkreis Donau-Ries Landkreis Fürstenfeldbruck Landkreis Günzburg Landkreis Landsberg am Lech Landkreis Ostallgäu Landkreis Starnberg Landkreis Unterallgäu Landkreis Neuburg-Schrobenhausen Schmellerforst Adelsried Allmannshofen Altenmünster Aystetten Biberbach (Schwaben) Bobingen Bonstetten (Schwaben) Diedorf Dinkelscherben Ehingen (Landkreis Augsburg) Ellgau Emersacker Fischach Gablingen Gersthofen Gessertshausen Graben (Lechfeld) Großaitingen Heretsried Hiltenfingen Horgau Kleinaitingen Klosterlechfeld Königsbrunn Kühlenthal Kutzenhausen Langenneufnach Langerringen Langweid am Lech Meitingen Mickhausen Mittelneufnach Neusäß Nordendorf Oberottmarshausen Scherstetten Schwabmünchen Stadtbergen Thierhaupten Untermeitingen Ustersbach Walkertshofen Wehringen Welden Westendorf (Landkreis Augsburg) Zusmarshausenmap
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Neusäß [ ˈnɔɪ̯zɛs ] is a town in the Swabian district of Augsburg with 22,058 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018).

geography

location

The city is located on the north-western edge of Augsburg on the Schmutter and borders the Augsburg-Western Forests Nature Park . The surrounding towns and communities are Gersthofen , Aystetten , Diedorf , Stadtbergen and Augsburg.

Parish parts

Map of Neusäß with its parts of the municipality

The municipality has nine officially named municipal parts (the type of settlement is indicated in brackets ):

The parts of the community are on both sides of the Schmutter, which runs in a south-north direction . This smaller river runs relatively naturally through the Schmuttertal. West of Schmuttertal from north to south are the smaller parts of the municipality Hammel (approx. 800 inhabitants), Ottmarshausen (1600), Hainhofen (1000) and Schlipsheim (500), to the east of it the larger parts of the municipality Täfertingen (1700), Neusäß (8600), Westheim near Augsburg (3500) and Steppach near Augsburg (4000).

Even if there are quite a few companies with local importance in Neusäß, Neusäß and its parts of the municipality are economically very closely linked to the city of Augsburg. The development in the districts of Neusäß, Westheim and Steppach is partly directly adjacent to that of Augsburg. This dependency can be found not only economically, but also in the areas of culture and leisure. Together with Friedberg , Gersthofen, Stadtbergen and Königsbrunn , Neusäß forms the bacon belt of Augsburg. These five surrounding municipalities, which are directly connected to Augsburg's development, are much better off financially than the big city. Neusäß is essentially a residential area of ​​Augsburg.

The highest point in Neusäß is the Kobelberg at 528.5 m, which lies between Steppach and Westheim. The Kobel was a popular pilgrimage destination , especially from the middle of the 19th century (construction of the Augsburg – Ulm railway with a station in Westheim) to the middle of the 20th century (the Kobel restaurant was demolished) (Kobelkirche Maria Loreto ), from which you can get a good view on Augsburg and the surrounding villages.

Neusäß photographed from the east

history

Topographic map of Augsburg's northwest, before 1830
Neusäß: ice cream parlor and the tower of St. Egidius
The pilgrimage church of St. Maria von Loreto on the Kobel

Eight villages

The eight formerly independent villages that make up today's Neusäß look back on a long history.

The part of the municipality Neusäß, which has also been called “Alt-Neusäß” since it was merged to form a municipality, dates back to the 11th century. At the time, several farmers settled around a small lake and called their place "Niusazen" (for example "New Residence"), which later became "Neusäß". The lake was later drained. Today there is a playground at this point. The Rembolds patrician family built a castle that was destroyed in the Thirty Years War . A chapel from the 16th century has been preserved. Neusäß had remained insignificantly small next to its neighboring villages for a long time (see map on the right), but then experienced such strong growth in the 19th and 20th centuries that it became the largest part of the community in terms of population.

Alemannic graves were found in the Täfertingen part of the municipality as a sign of early settlement. Täfertingen was probably founded in the 6th or 7th century, making it the oldest part of the community.

The community part of Hammel was first mentioned in a document in the 12th century and probably goes back to a castle with a monastery on Hammelberg, which no longer exists today . Hammel Castle , which is still inhabited today, was built in the 17th century . For almost three hundred years there were only a few houses in Hammel next to the castle.

Ottmarshausen was probably founded in the 8th century. During excavations at the old local church of St. Vitus, the remains of a wooden church from the year 900 were found. Abbot Otmar died in 759 and his bones were buried in St. Gallen in 864 . The connections between the Augsburg bishops and St. Gallen became ever closer during this time. This means that Ottmarshausen was founded at this time as well. The old church square in this community was considered a preferred settlement area from early on, as finds from the Stone Age prove.

There are two castles from the 18th century in Hainhofen .

The district of Schlipsheim was founded around the 10th century and was a street village for a long time . A castle stood in the center of the village until 1821, which was then torn down due to its dilapidation. Only the chapel remains of this castle.

Steppach was first mentioned in 1150. No precise information can be given about the time when “Stetebach” was founded. In research, “constant” is usually interpreted in the sense of a (possibly Roman) settlement that has existed for a long time. Whether the name goes back to a dried up brook , a left tributary to the Wertach , in the course of the current “Old Reich Road”, is controversial between historians and geologists . A peculiarity of the population development of Steppach was the blossoming of a Jewish community . After 1438 the Jews were no longer tolerated in the imperial city of Augsburg and found an opportunity to exist in the surrounding area. They were mainly active in trade, as they were not permitted to trade or trade. From 1584 to the end of the 19th century, a quarter to a third of Steppach's inhabitants were Jewish. In the “Alte Reichsstraße” there were not only several “ communal houses ” (corresponding to today's condominiums), but also a synagogue and a ritual immersion bath ( mikveh ). From the middle of the 19th century, the Jewish population began to emigrate, and in 1910 there were no longer any Jews living there. The Bismarck Tower in Steppach was built in 1905. In the last few years, a lively shopping and business center has emerged in Steppach after the construction of a bypass .

In 1852 a 7.5 hectare Roman settlement with five kilns was discovered in Westheimer area , which was operated from about the first half of the 2nd century to the middle of the 3rd century AD. The place itself was founded in the 11th century and goes back to a local noble family. A castle was built on the site of an earlier castle, which is now used as a retirement home. The pilgrimage church Maria Loreto was built on the Kobelberg in the 16th century . The high medieval castle stable Kobel is also located on the Kobelberg . The pilgrimage church, but also the Westheim train station , contributed to its importance. Westheim was still the largest settlement northwest of Augsburg in the first half of the 20th century.

Merger

On July 1, 1972, five villages - Hainhofen, Hammel, Neusäß, Schlipsheim and Westheim - merged under the name Neusäß. Ottmarshausen, Steppach and Täfertingen were added on May 1, 1978. The merger happened in the course of the municipal reform , but also to avoid the threat of incorporation into Augsburg.

On June 10, 1988 the local union Neusäß was raised to the city .

Population development

Population development in the town and community of Neusäß from 1933 to 2018
Location Neusäß
year Residents
1933 00000434
1939 00000942
1946 00001300
1961 00003667
1970 00006500
Neusäß municipality
year Residents
1961 0011,555
1970 0016,063
1991 0020,679
1995 0021,784
2002 0021,914
2005 0021,853
2006 0021,750
2007 0021,571
2008 0021,480
2009 0021,534
year Residents
2010 0021,564
2011 0021,087
2012 0021,265
2013 0021,529
2014 0021,433
2015 0021,617
2016 0021,861
2017 0022,185
2018 0022,058

Between 1988 and 2018 the city grew from 19,375 to 22,058 by 2,683 inhabitants or 13.9%.

religion

The Catholic parishes of St. Giles and St. Thomas More in Neusäß, St. Vitus in Ottmarshausen, Assumption of Mary in Täfertingen and St. Martin in Aystetten belong to the parish community of Neusäß in the dean's office in Augsburg-Land in the diocese of Augsburg . The Protestant Emmaus community in Neusäß part of the deanery Augsburg in the church district Augsburg . A congregation of the New Apostolic Church has existed in Westheim since 1947.

politics

City Councilor and Mayor

In the local election on March 15, 2020 , the distribution of seats (share of votes in brackets) in the 30-member city council resulted:

Compared to the 2014-2020 term of office, the CSU, SPD, Free Voters and FDP each lost one seat. Alliance 90 / The Greens gained two seats, the AfD moved into the local council for the first time (two seats).

From 1984 to 2008 Manfred Nozar (independent, in the 1984 election still SPD) was mayor of Neusäß. On March 2, 2008, Hansjörg Durz (CSU) was elected mayor with 64 percent of the vote. Since Hansjörg Durz was elected to the Bundestag, the 2nd mayor Richard Greiner took over the official business in Neusäß as acting mayor from October 9, 2013. In the local elections on March 16, 2014, Richard Greiner was elected First Mayor of the City of Neusäß with almost 61 percent of the vote and was confirmed in office for another six years on March 15, 2020 with 64.4 percent of the votes. Further mayors from May 2020 are Wilhelm Kugelmann (CSU; as before) and Susanne Höhnle (SPD, previously Monika Uhl).

Board with the twin cities of Neusäß

Twin cities

Attractions

Hainhofen Castle

nature

Single tree in the field in Neusäß across from Am Kobelgraben 12

In Neusäß there are two recreational forests, the Lohwald and under conservation standing Kobelwald . The Schmuttertal and the meandering Schmutter are popular destinations for nature lovers and walkers. A pond in Neusäß, the Thalersee, was created by dredging between Täfertingen and Neusäß.

Neusäß has the following natural monuments :

  • Ahorn- und Birkenallee on the Hainhofen-Westheim footpath
  • Red beech and maple trees in the Hainhofen Castle Park
  • Hollow path on the Ottmarshausen-Aystetten communal path (path to the "Swabian Kingdom of Heaven")
  • four linden trees at the confluence of Kapellenweg and Kobelstraße in Westheim

Culture

Entrance to the House of Music on Daimlerstrasse
Entrance to stereo sound from the main street

The Neusäß town hall has been available as a multi-purpose hall for events such as concerts, theater or cabaret since 1988. It has an area of ​​531 m² and 815 m² together with the foyer. The city hall can seat up to 633 people and can also be made smaller with a flexible partition.

In October 2015 the city of Neusäß opened a “House of Music and Youth Culture” on the site of the old “Stereoton” youth center . This houses several clubs on the first and second floors:

  • Neusässer Chamber Orchestra e. V.
  • Singing and Music School Neusäß e. V.
  • Stadtkapelle Neusäß e. V.
  • Carnival association "Narrneusia" e. V. Show dance group

The new “stereo sound” is located in the basement, accessible through a separate entrance. Young people can meet there, there is a café and various events for children, young people and young adults. In addition to the house, this also includes an outdoor area where open-air events take place in summer.

Other clubs

Office of the ACO e. V.

The Augusta Club Ordnungsdienst e. V. (ACO e.V.) was founded on February 15, 1988. In October 1992 the accident follow-up assistance was launched. From 1997 the ACO e. V. is a recognized civil service agency and has been an agency for the federal voluntary service since 2011 . Since October 2015 the office has been located in a building of the former road maintenance depot.

schools

At the Neusäß school location there are four primary schools , a combined primary and secondary school, a vocational school , a secondary school , the Justus-von-Liebig-Gymnasium as well as a technical college , a vocational school and a vocational college .

Libraries

Instead of a central city library, there is the Neusäß public library, which is made up of five sub-libraries in four districts. Their carriers and responsible are the Catholic parishes of St. Nicholas of Flüe, St. Raphael, St. Thomas More, St. Vitus and St. Giles. Together there are over 50,000 items that can be borrowed.

traffic

Neusäß is connected to the federal motorway 8 (exit Neusäß 71B) and the Ulm-Augsburg railway line. Neusäß has two train stations , one in Westheim and one in Neusäß. Regional trains of the AVV R6 line stop at both, as do the part of the Fugger Express that runs between Ulm and Munich .

The airport Augsburg is about 15 km (ten minutes by car) and the Munich airport about 90 km (one hour).

Known citizens

  • Joseph Leopold (1810–1868), German robber, convict and straw hat manufacturer, born in Schlipsheim
  • David Heinemann (1819–1902), portrait painter and art dealer, born in Schlipsheim
  • Sena Jurinac -Lederle (1921–2011), chamber singer and member of the Vienna Mozart Ensemble, lived in Hainhofen from 1973 until her death.
  • Robert Pfeiffer (1925–2017), director, theater and film actor, lived in Neusäß
  • Martha Schad (* 1939), historian and author, lives in Westheim
  • Christoph Stölzl (* 1944), historian, museologist, publicist and politician (CDU), born in Westheim
  • Rudolf Trautz , four-time world champion, eight-time European champion, 21-time German master in ballroom dancing (Latin)
  • Clemens Brocker (* 1961), artist, lives in Neusäß
  • Tina Schüßler (* 1974), professional athlete, three-time world champion in boxing, kickboxing and reigning in the K-1 of the WKU , singer, actress and presenter. She lives with her partner Clemens Brocker in Neusäß
  • Meike Droste (* 1980), actress, grew up in Neusäß
  • Annina Braunmiller (* 1985), actor and voice actress, grew up in Neusäß

literature

  • Richard Greiner, Winfried Greiner: The manors in Alt-Neusäß - a contribution to local history . Neusäß, 1975
  • Manfred Nozar, Walter Pötzl (ed.): Neusäß - The story of eight villages on the long way to one city . Neusäß, 1988
  • City of Neusäß (publisher): 25 years of the city of Neusäß 1988–2013 . Neusäß, 2013

Web links

Wiktionary: Neusäß  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Commons : Neusäß  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Data 2" sheet, Statistical Report A1200C 202041 Population of the municipalities, districts and administrative districts 1st quarter 2020 (population based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
  2. ^ City of Neusäß: [1] . As of March 6, 2019.
  3. ^ Community Neusäß in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bavarian State Library, accessed on August 19, 2019.
  4. ↑ From: Chronicle of the Ottmarshausen community. by Walter Pötzl
  5. ^ Ulrich Brandl and Emmi Federhofer: Ton + Technik. Roman bricks. Theiss, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-8062-2403-0 ( publications from the Limes Museum Aalen. No. 61)
  6. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 424 .
  7. ↑ a b c d e Federal Statistical Office (Hrsg.): Historical municipality register for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 765 and 767 .
  8. ↑ Bracciano. In: www.neusaess.de. Retrieved February 13, 2018 .
  9. ↑ List of natural monuments in the Augsburg district, as of 2011. (No longer available online.) In: www.landkreis-augsburg.de. Archived from the original on September 27, 2015 ; accessed on June 30, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Rooms and seating. In: www.neusaess.de. Retrieved February 13, 2018 .
  11. ^ Augusta Club Security Service: The helpers for all cases. Augsburger Allgemeine from September 17, 2016, accessed on February 13, 2018 .